Quote

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Leo Tolstoy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
Diarist
Esperantist
Essayist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Playwright
Prosaist
Writer
Tolstoi
Tolstoy
Lev Nikolaevich
graf Tolstoĭ
Lev Nikolayevich
Count Tolstoy
Count Lev Tolstoy
Leo
graf Tolstoy
Lev
Count Tolstoy
Lev
graf Tolsztoj
Лев Николаевич
c граф Толстой
Lew
graf Tolstoi
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Lev Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy
Feels
Magical
Something
Frightened
Like
Terror
Suddenly
Exist
Wakened
Happened
Terrors
Knowledge
Wakes
Dream
Creepy

More quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Many people have ideas on how others should change few people have ideas on how they should change.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Each time of life has its own kind of love.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
It is very difficult to tell the truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'
Leo Tolstoy
Image
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. Where is it? What death? There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Leo Tolstoy